Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 605

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284137

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scientific name

Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932
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Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932 View in CoL . Das Aquarium, 6:134.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Huon Peninsula, Saruwaged Mts, Ogeramnang, 1785 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea (above 1250 m in Owen Stanley Range from Mt Dayman west to Kratke Mts and Purosa region in Eastern Highlands Prov., then northeast to mountains on Huon Peninsula; probably occurs farther west in Papuan Central Cordillera, but limits unknown); Irian Jaya (Arfak Mts only; limits unknown).

COMMENTS: A distinctive species distinguished from L. elegans by the diagnostic and distributional traits enumerated by Rümmler (1932). It is endemic to mountain rainforest and in Owen Stanley Range replaces L. elegans at elevations above 1000 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Leptomys

Loc

Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932

Rummler 1932: 134
1932
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